This year’s UFW international program has been headed by Italian fashion manager and Maas Markets owner Maurizio Aschero, who joined the UFW as a head of its international development department.

The Ukrainian Fashion Week aims at promotion of Ukrainian designers worldwide. “Ukrainian designers, who remain faithful to creativity, are very close to become commercially successful. Another important feature of the event is the large number of charity and social projects that are developing within UFW,” said Volodymyr Nechyporuk, General Producer of the UFW.

In addition to the catwalk shows, the UFW traditionally hosts special events for its guests. One of this year’s features has been the lavish exhibition “From Gothic to Modern. The History of European Fashion,” dedicated to the landmarks of the European fashion development of the 15th-19th centuries.

The Ukrainian Fashion Week was established in 1997, becoming the first professional fashion event in Eastern Europe. Each year the UFW presents the prêt-à-porter collections from the leading Ukrainian designers as well as the fashion industry newcomers, brings to Ukraine over 25,000 guests and accredits more than 150 media outlets from Ukraine and abroad.